{"id":18098,"date":"2021-09-21T16:40:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T16:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=18098"},"modified":"2021-09-21T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T14:37:17","slug":"former-mp-katoto-loses-poll-petition-against-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/former-mp-katoto-loses-poll-petition-against-brother","title":{"rendered":"Former MP Katoto loses poll petition against brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The High court in Mbarara has dismissed an election petition against Katerera Constituency MP, Mr Muhammed Kato, which was filed by his brother Mr Hatwib Katoto.<\/p>\n<p>Court presided over by Justice Moses Kazibwe Kawumi dismissed the petition on Tuesday with costs on grounds that the evidence presented was invalid.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Katoto, the former Member of Parliament for Katerera constituency challenged his elder brother\u2019s victory in the January 2021 election, on grounds that the latter lacked requisite academic documents. He also alleged that there was multiple voting and ballot staffing, voter intimidation and bribery.<\/p>\n<p>In his petition, Katoto had asked court to declare him as the winner or order for a fresh election.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mr Kato\u2019s lawyers Mr Obed Mwebesa and Ronald Tusingwire asked court to dismiss the case since the evidence provided was commissioned by a lawyer whose practicing license had expired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe affidavits in support of the petition and the additional affidavits are incurably defective. The jurat was typed and signed independent of the main body in all the affidavits,\u201d Mr Mwebesa said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn sum, the petition collapses since it is not supported with a valid affidavit. No valid intervention can be premised on Section 14A of the advocates Act to resuscitate what is regarded as a nullity under the law,\u201d Acting Mbarara deputy Registrar, Mr Samuel Twakyire, read Justice Kazibwe\u2019s judgement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA certificate of costs for two counsels is awarded to the first respondent (Mr Kato\u2019s lawyers) who shall be paid 80 per cent of the taxed costs. The second respondent (Electoral commission) shall be paid 20 per cent of the taxed costs,\u201d the judge further ruled.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kato was in January declared winner with 12213votes, followed by Mr Katoto who garnered 9302 votes in a race that attracted four other candidates.<\/p>\n<p>There were six candidates in the Katerera County race seat where Katoto Hatwib with 9302 votes following his elder brother Muhammed Kato NRM candidate with 12213votes, Stephen Matsiko Kiweka polled 583 votes, ANT candidate Ampaire Brian George garnered 62, Ndinawe Daniel scored 328 votes and Kabagamba Swamadu got 139 votes.<\/p>\n<p><b>[email protected]<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. The High court in Mbarara has dismissed an election petition against Katerera Constituency MP, Mr Muhammed Kato, which was filed by his brother Mr Hatwib Katoto. Court presided over by Justice Moses Kazibwe Kawumi dismissed the petition on Tuesday with costs on grounds that the evidence presented was invalid. Mr Katoto, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-18098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former MP Katoto loses poll petition against brother - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The High court in Mbarara has dismissed an election petition against Katerera Constituency MP, Mr Muhammed Kato, which w ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/former-mp-katoto-loses-poll-petition-against-brother\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former MP Katoto loses poll petition against brother\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The High court in Mbarara has dismissed an election petition against Katerera Constituency MP, Mr Muhammed Kato, which w ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/former-mp-katoto-loses-poll-petition-against-brother\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-21T16:40:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/09\/img-6149ee0a3dcf0.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/former-mp-katoto-loses-poll-petition-against-brother#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/former-mp-katoto-loses-poll-petition-against-brother\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Former MP Katoto loses poll petition against brother\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-21T16:40:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/former-mp-katoto-loses-poll-petition-against-brother\"},\"wordCount\":354,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/former-mp-katoto-loses-poll-petition-against-brother#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/09\/img-6149ee0a3dcf0.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/former-mp-katoto-loses-poll-petition-against-brother#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/former-mp-katoto-loses-poll-petition-against-brother\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/former-mp-katoto-loses-poll-petition-against-brother\",\"name\":\"Former MP Katoto loses poll petition against brother - 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